ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXII, Issue 243, 15 October 1888, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Sullivan, the pugilist, wns seriously ill on Se pt ember 24, from gastric fever, Marget Fox Kane, the originator of Spiritualism pronounces the bo called phenomena a fraud from its foundation, and intends to expose the same. Alexander Goldenson, a Jew boy has been banged for the murder of Minnio Kelly at San. Francisco on September 14. He was converted into Catholicism the instant before death. Yellow fever is raging in Florida, where it was contracted by Mr Proctor, who died on his return to New York. Gapt Andrews has given up the attempt to cross the Atlantic in a dory, and was picked up at sea when half over on August 19th in a deplorable condition. The State elections at Maine and Vermont have gone largely in favor of the Republican side. . ( Lister Wallock and William Warren, veteran American actors, died during September. The new American Chinese treaty has been rejected by China. ' A new and more rigid Chinese exclusion Bill has been introduced in Congress, and passed both Houses, but up to September 24th had not been signed by the Senate. A terrible hurricane occurred in Cuba on September 4fch, and wrecked most of the principal cities in the island.

Auckland, October 15. The Maripoea arrived ao 7 o'clock this morning-, she left S^n Francisco on Septein* bar 24fch, immediately on arrival of the English mail, which had beon detained on the pasuage across the Atlantic, She experienced fino woatber through the eatire passage Passengfirs for Auckland, Mr-* H. Q. $3 iou nud three children, Miss S. E. Sharp, Messrs W. D. Grant, F. D. Forcet, F. P.Ewen, John Darling, and five steerage, Passengers for Sydney, 39 Eeloon, and 53 steerage. Mail Summary* Among the passengers by the Maripoaa nre Willmtn Babrock, a leading merchant at San Francisco, and Leigh Lynch, ageno for Spaldmg s oaseb^Heaterprjflefortlieoolonieß,